The lender's going extract a pound of flesh in the form of a significant credit hit and possible deficiency judgments.

You want people who want a solution and gave taken no meaningful action yet.

Even if it was cash flow positive at its current equity position, it will be cash flow negative when you refinance to a high LTV loan to extract money for your next purchase. 

Talking about one without the others is not meaningful (not to mention financing differences)

Extracting hot points from sellers 6.

Since you are a real estate agent, you may also want to consider whether a particular referral will lead to any meaningful benefit to you.  

@Andrew Johnson I won't really know if the asking price is vastly above market value for the property because I don't know the extent of the repairs needed yet, but based on basic number crunching it shows the rents are far too low to support the value the seller intends on extracting from the sale. 

You want to go in with a basic understanding of the different structures so that you can have a meaningful conversation and understand what they are saying, but outside of that it's just too much of the same answer (Talk to an attorney and CPA).  

@Jason Mak @Bill ExeterExample:Sell SFR with $120k profitBuy apartment complex with seller financing, put $60k down, get $60k back from seller at closing.I'm assuming (knowing nothing about the 1031 process) that this can't be done, since you're extracting profits... 

Jones  why not establish a criteria for CoC return or some other meaningful metric?